advice - what can i do to accept being alone?

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I have given up on not being alone - here's what i've tried: joining clubs related to my interests (some for prolonged periods of time), uni, learning other languages (2), living in other cultures (i have lived in 4 countries), acting lessons, dancing lessons, guitar lessons, counselling (with 2 different psychologists, 3 if you count one i went to as a child), going to a psychiatrist (sent me to counselling), imitating NTs, parties (always a disaster), supplements, online dating sites, etc. conclusion: I will always be alone.
does anyone have any suggestions how i can feel better about being alone? currently it makes me feel pretty miserable (frankly, if it weren't beause i love my parents and know how much it would harm them, I would have committed suicide long ago), so i would like some advice on coping/adapting.

...Not a whole lot to say now , just want to follow this line later when I'm not at a pay cybercafe .
I don't know what to say to you , pb...........

Try anti-depressants.

Spend less time on the internet.

Find a girlfriend. Or at least a good friend. Just one will do.

Start finding a way to express yourself.

Go out and do something you enjoy, even if it is not usually done alone. I like to go out to eat and then to a movie

i'm going to be joining an art group here come next week. hopefully i'll be able to meet someone and at the very least start up a friendship with!

Felt this way myself...wondering at times why bother going on living if there is no one especially who cares that I am living... I suppose though, you can either keep on trying and not give up...persist and meantime work on the areas that are causing you such social difficulties..or you can relax a little and be content with online contact and pursuing your interests instead of continually putting on pressure to mix with people. Maybe you need to just work on not so much accepting your aloneness as finding some comfort in it. Keep posting on the boards, join the uk aspie boards(there are some who have meetups) and maybe just get to know a few individuals in the uk, online...maybe a few get togethers, then maybe the loneliness will ease up. Just because the contact is online, does not invalidate it. Alternatively, start haunting the library or a specific store and over time get to know staff by sharing knowledge or asking things that can result in a conversation. I know that is how a local aspie man here has got around the isolation. He avoids close relationships, but talks to a variety of library staff and store workers, and random customers.

Spend more time being yourself and less time being like others.

I really dont care if people care about me or not. It would be nice if someone did but I'm not going to beat myself up for it.

Law of Attraction - maybe check out this

I'm sorry, but the whole point is that if i COULD get friends, a girlfriend, i wouldn't feel this way. it's like telling me that a trip to Mars will solve my problems. ("I have given up on not being alone")

I'm exactly where you're at, except I wasn't as prolific in my attempts to not be alone. But I have come to realize that my natural state -- and the only one which I can sustain -- is solitude. Since being alone frees up a lot of your time, devoting that time to college and/or a career helps a lot emotionally, as does the money a good career brings in. You know all those people who say they had this dream they really wanted to fulfill, but got pregnant, or otherwise "had to give up" their dream for their family? Well, you don't have to -- so you'll find you can get farther ahead in life's other goals than family people can. Enjoy being your own person, and being able to set your own limits.

I find the the key ... to not getting into the state where your only re-course is to say :: what's the piont !

-is diversity.

Setting goals can be good , but when they fail, again you ask yourself ,, what's the piont.

-I find that setting, mini mundane goals helps, with slightly larger goals to give me a sense of achievement.

-Maybe your first goal could be to do, something different, for every 2 hours in the day... eg. clean up the house in the morning, then go on the internet WP forum maybe fun, then have lunch outside, or cook your own, then watch TV your favorite program, then instead of cooking dinner, call up a close friend and ask if they would like to meet.. then come back home and do a hobby (Don't make the TV your hobby) and finally if your exhasuted enough ,sleep.


VATICAN 2 (Pope John Paul) ,, interpreted the bible as stating that LOVE is WORK and WORK is LOVE ... just don't get bogged down in the singular job,, cleaning the house with a different mop will provide the diversity to keep you sane.

-I know, again you say what is the Piont - well, the Piont I think may just be to Live, and work, so that we may feel love.

-Hope it helps, I don't know when you posted, but hoope you are still reading, and find some solice in what I have pondered upon.

Don´t have any advice, but I know exactly what you mean...

I find it hilarious when I tell people that I've tried everything I could think of and didn't succeed in making friends, and they advise me to call a friend so I'll feel better.

Rofl. Yeah. In one ear and out the other.

you need to understand how your brain works, you need to reprogram your brain:
you have to associate "friends" with disaster, so that every time you want a friend, you think at all the disasters happened with "friends", you think at everything that can go wrong, and the desire for a "friend" will disappear. When you're thinking that you are alone you have to think at all the beautifull moments you spend alone on your own, and what beautiful moments you could have.
If you do this for long enough, your brain will people automatically associate with disaster, and being alone with happiness. What you're doing at this moment is exact the opposite.
in both cases you program your brain to associate one thing with another (thats the way of the brain), its just the matter how you want to program it.
I tried this technique already for a while, and it works indeed, however there is still work to be done.

I think that's a wonderful idea. It's been kinda happening on its own lately, because I've had really good experiences on my own as opposed to the painful relationships with people I've always had.

What about a Dog?
I don't have one but I hear good things . . . .